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[quote user="welshnwilling"]or am I thinking about barley ?[/quote] I always thought that it was barley that wasn’t cost effective to roll. We fed 80% whole barley and 20% soya with some minerals...
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I think I would agree with Wnw about rolling them. I know you can feed them whole. We used to do it. I just couldn’t remember how much. I will take Wurzel’s advice and google it. Thank you all.
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I haven’t done it for a few years, but when trying to get lambs away late in the year I used to get them in and feed steam rolled barley. It never caused any problems if phased in over a couple of...
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[quote user="Jacobus"] You will really need to roll the oats to get the best from them. If they’re not rolled a significant proportion will just pass straight through. [/quote] I’m no expert but...
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We have fed oats for the first time this year and have got on quite well with them, we used a 50/50 with oats and sugar beet and mixed in a general mineral with them in the feeder wagon. The only...
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You will really need to roll the oats to get the best from them. If they’re not rolled a significant proportion will just pass straight through.
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Good advice from farmerbill. Sounds like a very simple and practical way of doing it.
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Thank you Farmerbill, we have good haylage this year and I think that with a few mineral licks we should be able to replace quite a bit of cake with oats. I will keep the triplet ewes on the cake...
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Brown Cow, rather than go to the trouble of mixing your own feed you could just use oats to replace some of the cake. It depends a bit on the rest of the diet but 1lb of cake and a1lb of oats in the...
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We’ve got a surplus of oats and they are not worth much to sell. Should I feed them instead of buying sheep cake for the ewes prior to lambing? Anyone have an idea of what I should add and kg/head...
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